Dec 18, 2005
Maybe It Is
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for...." Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia.
He completes the thought thus: "but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."